MCCONE SELECTION CRITICIZED BY SOME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700470007-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 23, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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MeCone Selection
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polntunjent had`:
caused' mur-
murs and mut-
By Chalmers M. Rob. its
start acnoaer
SOMETIME this week John
A. McCone will return to
Washington, ready to begin
the process of,. king control
News 'Analysis
telligence community who
deals with the CIA called the
appointment "outrageous." A
number of scientists-in-Gov-
ernment, likewise, were furi-
ous: .'here have been reports
t$a'$ soinl CIA-employes were
ttit'eatefting to resign and a
number of others are at least
in a skeptleal mood today.
But public, on-the-record,
opposition so far has been
minute. Sen. Eugene J. Mc-
Carthy (D-Minn.), commented
the other day that "there is
nothing particular to recotn-
mend Mr. McCone as director be opposed had no chance to
of the CIA." mount a counter-offensive
But Sen. Clinton P. Ander- once they realized he was
son (D-1. M.) called McCone about to tap McCone. There
"a very able, conscientious was only time enough for a
p u b l i c servant," adding: leak to the press half a day
"Though we did not always before the. appointment. .
see eye to eye. he stuck to his dent ill Eisenhower's n s successor r as Presi-
scientific
commitments to me." Ander-
son was speaking of the years adviser, George Kistiakowsky,
when McCone was President also is reported to be un
Eisenhower's Chairman of happy, as is Mr. Kennedy's
the %tomic Energy Commis- science adviser, Jerome Wiea
sion and the Senator was ncr. Such feelings appear to
Chairman of the Joint Con- reflect visa, of a number of
gressional Atomic Commit- scientists and others who
tee. have become involved in tho
Well. informed persons in. nuclear test ban issue. They
sist that James R. Killian, have never forgiven McCone'
who Aow heads the Massa-' for what he did during the
chusetts. Institute of Tech- 1956 presidential campaign.
nology, was so out of sorts After Adlai Stevenson had
over the appointment that come out for a test ban,. 10
he threatened to resign as scientists at the. California
Chairman of President Ken- Institute of Technology .is-
nedy's. Foreign Intelligence sued a statement of support.
Advisory Board. When asked, McCone, then -a Cal Tech
Killian said there is "abso- trustee, was outraged.. He
lutely nothing to it." He did contended the scientists,
say that the board was' not among them Harrison , rown
asked to pass on the nomina- and Thomas Lauritsen, were
tion. Other sources say that approving a unilateral stop-
he and Clark Clifford, Wash- page of tests by the,. United
ington attorney and a mem- States.
her of the group, did give He wrote a letter tq LaVrlt?.
their endorsement. sen saying, the scientists
statement was."obviolislY'de-
PRESIDENT Kennedy kept signed to creata fear lit' the
his choice' so secret until aI- minds of the uninformed .;i:hst
most the point of announce radioactive fallout from H.
ment that those he knew to, bomb tests endangers life.
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